County leaders have approved a program that will give some low-income seniors and disabled veterans up to a $300 rebate of their county property taxes, and applications are set to open in January.
At its meeting on Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted to approve the pilot program. It will be available to low-income property owners who are either 65 or older or are disabled veterans, and whose homes ...
Douglas County property owners who are low-income seniors or disabled veterans soon may be eligible to receive up to a $300 rebate of county property taxes via a proposed program under consideration by the County Commission.
On Wednesday, county commissioners will consider approving a property tax rebate pilot program that would be open to low-income residents who either are 65 years or older or are disabled ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority and Douglas County leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of a new apartment complex for low-income seniors and disabled veterans, which will allow the LDCHA to serve more than 30 people waiting for affordable housing.
On Tuesday, the LDCHA held the groundbreaking ceremony for the housing project, Delmar Place Apartments, which is expected to move its first residents ...
Several facility construction projects will begin in the Perry-Lecompton school district to support athletics and fine arts students along with parents looking for better day care options nearby.
Last fall, the Perry-Lecompton school district passed a $17.8 million bond issue for new and updated facilities. The funding will be distributed between two construction phases, with the first one costing roughly $14 ...
Crickets and grasshoppers sing among the native grasses and flowers on a 10-acre remnant prairie southwest of Eudora. The prairie – located on the Compass Prairie Art Farm – offers numerous seasonal blooms of native flowers, and its highly diverse landscape is hard to find.
“There’s like a different palette of color that seems to sprinkle itself through the prairie,” said Matt Dehaemers, owner of ...
More than 70 kitchen and medicinal herbs grow at Wild Ivy Herb Farm, which is carrying on a family tradition of growing natural medicines and creating herbal remedies.
“Herbs are so special,” said Lori Trojan, owner of Wild Ivy Herb Farm. “They are extraordinary plants with vastly powerful medicinal properties, and they deserve something really unique and special.”
Trojan said she was introduced to ...
